Umm.......we just bought a house!

This is a very strange situation, as has been confirmed by many other sources!


So here is the thing, we have been renting a house from our friends these two months that we have been back and were resigned to stay here throughout most of the year. Well, when we came back from our trip to Chicago for New Year's, we went to see a house here in Warrensburg that caught our eye. We spent 2 1/2 hours there that day and completely fell in love with it. No kidding, it has all of the things we were looking for-

• Style: Bungalow, check
• wood burning fireplace, check
• bigger kitchen and master bedroom, double check
• land with fruit trees-fun place for kids to work and play etc, check- (including grape vines, cherry trees, apple trees, black walnut, bla bla bla)
• Closer to church, work and school, check
• Ready to move in, check
• Music room, check
  

You get the idea, we figured it would be tough to achieve. So at that point there were some things that we just couldn't do. It was priced a little more than what we were comfortable with, we would have to have the PMI on our mortgage- yuck, after draining all of our savings. We just felt like we really couldn't do that even though it felt just like home.

This is where it gets weird, that day we actually met 2 of the daughters (who are selling it for their parents after 45 happy years there raising 6 children) and actually the mom was on the other side of the property watching us, talking to another lady that wanted to make an offer. We had pretty much written it off as our dream come true. So we were a little suprised when we got a call from our agent on Saturday stating that he had gotten a call from the sellers. They wanted to let us know that they were going to drop the price for us if we would be interested in buying it. We talked about it for a bit then told our agent that we just weren't feeling comfortable with it- I mean who knows if the economy will tank tomorrow. Our agent let them know and they said something to the effect of- this is not about the money, it is purely a sentimental sale and they wanted to see a family in their home- that family would be us! We said "wow, how nice, but not likely", and they said "what do we have to do to get that family in this house". (We found out today that they have a cash offer to close in two weeks- and they are persuing us to buy it for a chunck of change less than asking price.)

We feel like there is another hand very much involved in our life right now. We have spent some steady time on our knees this weekend and have been able to resolve all of our original concerns- so, we just bought a house. Good thing we still have lots of boxes to pack things back up in!